What is the purpose of life?

An eternal question, what is the purpose of life?, occupied philosophers’ thoughts throughout history. Stone pictographs reveal even primitive peoples reflected on this query. Each one has the capacity to define his or her personal thinking about politics, economics and religion.

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Joan, my late friend, Judith Hayes, wrote something about the story of Jesus having to carry his own cross to the execution site (which is silly for many reasons, mainly because the Romans built the crosses ON site), and the exhortation to new Christians to "take up your cross, and follow Christ." Plus the morbid Catholic ritual of the Stations of the Cross.

She asked, "What if he had refused to carry the cross?" "You wanna crucify me? Fine. YOU carry the cross."

A fellow asked me some questions and here are my answers: "Who are you?" I am I. "Why are you here?" To participate in life."Where are you going to?" I shall dance in star dust, just as you. "You have nothing to navigate by," I have stars, constellations, electromagnetism, forces of nature. "because it's all relative to you being the center of the Universe," I am not the center of the universe, I exist in the universe with all that implies. I am part of it all, I exist, not superior to or inferior to anybody or anything, we are all passengers on planet Earth and it is one wondrous ride.

We can hope or wish or pray, but to find out why so many children have juvenile arthritis we need science. By looking, paying attention, conducting studies we find what causes the disease, how and why. Then we can develop strategies to decrease the risk of children contacting carriers.

GOP, “a party that’s been taken over by Tea Partiers, nativists, social Darwinists, homophobes, right-wing evangelicals, and a few rich people whose only interest is to become even wealthier.

“Romney’s failing isn’t that he’s a bad candidate. To the contrary, he’s giving this GOP exactly what it wants in a candidate. And that’s exactly the problem for Romney — as it is for every other Republican candidate — because what the GOP wants is not at all what the rest of America wants.”